The DocQ web service eliminates the limitations of sharing physical documents by offering a complete paperless business solution; providing a single place where customers can manage, archive, and send their important documents. DocQ supports secure business transactions and the services to store, edit, collaborate, and publish business documents.

The database needed to deliver the high levels of write throughput, low latency responsiveness and continuous availability demanded by the service

A sharded, multi-master MySQL solution with memcached was rejected due to the complexity of integration and management

MySQL Cluster was selected as it met all of the requirements of the service with one, integrated solution out of the box

MySQL Cluster is handling on average 1 million queries per day across both in-memory and disk-based tables, with the database growing at up to 2% daily